Can an RTO still enrol new students in PUA32106?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 15 March 2013. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in PUA32106?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

PUA32106 Certificate III in Public Safety (Regional Surveillance Operations)

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

PUA32106Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Regional Surveillance Operations)
equivalent
DEF32112Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Regional Surveillance Operations

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF32112 is the last product it points at, and DEF32112 is not marked current either.

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

PUA32106DEF32112equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA32106 and for its training package PUA00 (release 8.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

PUA32106_R1.docxPUA32106 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
PUA32106_R1.pdfPUA32106 release 1 · product document · published 23 September 2012

Is PUA32106 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA32106 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What PUA32106 is made of

training.gov.au lists 37 units for PUA32106. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 37 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BCG1006A	Use small plant and equipment	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMN203A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMN211A	Participate in workplace safety procedures	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV204B	Access and use resources	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA001B	Observe and monitor hostile areas to detect targets	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA002B	Operate remote sensors to detect targets	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA003B	Operate a radar to locate targets	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA005B	Operate communications equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA304B	Prepare, operate and maintain small watercraft	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA404B	Undertake reconnaissance tasks	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA405B	Undertake surveillance patrol tasks	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA406B	Operate a service pistol	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA407B	Operate a sustained fire machine gun	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA411B	Operate a grenade launcher	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA413B	Operate a direct fire support weapon	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA415B	Operate anti-personnel weapon	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA416C	Employ hand operated pyrotechnics	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA419B	Operate a service rifle on operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA420B	Operate a light support weapon on operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM001B	Use personal camouflage and concealment in a threat environment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM101C	Operate a service rifle	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM103C	Operate a service hand grenade	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEO201C	Respond to fire	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP001B	Operate a vehicle in an environment of threat	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP002B	Operate a vehicle at night	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP003B	Operate a vehicle over difficult terrain	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME001B	Provide emergency care	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE003B	Navigate in urban and rural environments	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 7 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA005A	Manage own professional performance	`N/A`	not current
RTC1301A	Operate basic machinery and equipment	`N/A`	not current
TDTC297B	Drive light rigid vehicle	`N/A`	not current
TDTC397B	Drive medium rigid vehicle	`N/A`	not current
TDTC497C	Drive heavy rigid vehicle	`N/A`	not current
TDTD397C	Handle dangerous goods/hazardous substances	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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